Hello friends welcome back to my solo road my name is Sydney I live in a van and this isn't my podcast. How are we doing? I hope you guys are doing really, really well. I do have a couple things I want to say at the beginning of this one. First of all, the response in general to my social anxiety episode has been absolutely insane thank you so much for listening to that episode and actually receiving it the way that I was really hesitant.

Like I didn't know if you guys would receive it that way, but I almost did it a second time because I was embarrassed and I didn't think that it went very well and I was like oh my gosh I forgot to say this and I forgot to say that and then I just kind of put it out there and so many of you have sent me messages of your experience with social anxiety or you know you didn't even

know that you had it but you were like holy crap I feel the exact same way you are literally describing my personality to a T. So now you're kind of on this journey of discovering a piece of you that you didn't really know what to call it exactly how I was and how I explained it in that episode and now you can

kind of start to grow and change in a very positive way and if you get anything out of this

podcast ever whether you ever intend to live in a van or not, that is exactly what my goal has been when I started doing social media and I started sharing more and more about my life. I really, really just

wanted people to kind of take what I'm saying, I guess, in a way that would inspire them

or motivate them to change and grow and I never in a million

years thought that I was going to talk about my social anxiety on a podcast especially

not my own podcast and so to end up doing that and then for you guys to just send me these like beautiful

messages in ways that it resonates with you or even just saying like thank you for

sharing that I know it was probably difficult anything like that it was just

really really cool so I just wanted to say thank you

second of all I am still trying to get YouTube together if you want to

subscribe to my channel it is just called divine on the road I am doing my best I am doing the same thing that I talked about last week where I was too

scared to talk on Instagram like stories I didn't want to face the camera and talk and so it took me a couple

weeks of practicing and talking to the camera every single day and never posting it

before I could actually just do it and post it and And I've kind of been practicing the same technique with YouTube.

So I've been recording my podcast,

but I haven't been editing the videos or even looking

at the videos after I record them,

just because I want to get used to having the camera in my face.

It's kind of a new feeling and as we all have learned somebody with social anxiety,

...